Neville Goddard 003 T - Y PDFs on Imagining Creates Reality and Experiencing Scripture of Oral Traditions

Neville - 1-27-1969

THE MYSTERY OF INSPIRATION

Inspiration is a divine action which qualifies the individual to receive and communicate sacred revelation. The
prophets, apostles, and incurrent eyewitnesses are those who receive such inspiration.

The prophets' visions are foreshortened. They see as present what is really future. Prophesying of the grace
that is to be yours, they searched and inquired what person or what time was indicated by the spirit of Christ
in them, when they predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that
they were serving not themselves, but you!

The apostles are sent by the Risen Lord to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament and to share their
experiences with alL

Individual man, having been conditioned to believe that God is somewhere in space as someone on the
outside, cannot believe that everything he beholds is within his own human imagination. But it is.

We are told: 'He who receives you, receives me, and he who receives me, receives him who sent me. If
Christ is in you, although your body is dead, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will raise you also
through his Spirit within you." (Matthew 10 & Romans 8) The first quote, from Matthew, tells you that God is
in you, for the writers of the New Testament identify the Christ who governs your life with Jehovah, who
inspired the prophets.

Paul tells us that Christ is in you, although your body is dead. This I know to be true. I have stopped time and
witnessed how dead this body is. Time and again I have moved into a society, arrested the activity in me that
causes the animation I am observing, and everyone has stood still. They appear to be as dead as the statues
of clay or marble in a museum. I have entered a room to become possessed by the motion that inspires
things. I have arrested this action, and everything has stood still. I have walked among those present to
discover they are all dead. Now I know that Paul's statement is true: "If Christ is in you, although the body is
dead, he who raised Christ from the dead will raise you also, through his Spirit within you. "

But how do I convince you that the Lord God Jehovah is actually in you? That Jehovah is dreaming he is you,
and in the end will awaken as you? How do I convince you that you will witness the images the prophets
used? They tell us that Christ is the Rock. That you have forgotten the God who gave you birth.

The prophets equate the Rock with the Lord God Jehovah. This I know to be true. One day I sat in the
silence, when quartz appeared before my vision. As I watched, the rock fragmented into numberless pieces

and instantly molded itself into the human form, seated in the lotus posture in profound meditation. As I
realized I was looking at myself, the form began to glow. It increased in intensity until it reached the limit of
translucency. Then it exploded and my vision came to its end. Now I know I am the Rock that begot me.

Out of that solid state of death comes life, for you put this limit of contraction and opacity called Man upon
yourself. At the present time three and a half billion of us walk the earth, individualized, because the being
which gives us life is asleep.

Believing the world is taking place independent of our perception, we do not realize that our dreams are
projecting themselves on this screen of space, and that we are in conflict with our dreams. But one day God
will awaken within your dead body; and when he does, all of the imagery of scripture will surround you,
identifying you as the central figure of the Bible -- the Lord God Jesus Christ.

Scripture is all about God, as there is no one else. God and his name are one! That name is I AM! Falling
asleep, God breathed upon your body and it became animated, as He dreams your world into being. One
day God will awaken and all of your confusion will end. Then you will take off your garment of death to
return to the being you were before that the world was. You will be enhanced beyond your wildest dreams,
for there is no limit to your expansion and translucency. A limit was set to contraction and opacity, which is
the body of death called Man; but your expansion and translucency is limitless.

Who would have thought that the imagery recorded in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy was true: "Of the
Rock that begot you, you are unmindllil and have forgotten the God who gave you life." In this verse God is
equated with the Rock that fragmented itself and is defused in all.

Although now a universally diffused individuality, the Rock's name forever and ever is I AM! Every child bom
of woman says, I am! That is the fragmented rock. In the end, when the fragments gather together to form
one being, you - wearing your face - will realize no one exists independent of your perception, for the world
is contained within your own wonderful human imagination, and projected by you.

When I tell you what I know from inspiration, it is true, for it happened to me. And when it does, I turn to the
Old Testament to find a passage in the word of God that parallels my experience. If I do, then I have two
witnesses that agree in testimony, making it conclusive.

I saw myself begotten out of a rock, for the rock fragmented, then gathered itself together to fomi a person I
knew to be myself - not the being I shave in the morning, but myself raised to the nth degree of perfection.
That being was meditating me, and I must become as perfect as He is. And when I am He awakes and I am
eternal life, the one who came down into a body that was dead, to dream the dream of life. Everyone is this
completely diffused being. Knowing that you are, you are mentally saying I am; and that is God's name
forever and ever.

Now, not everything in the Bible is inspired. Paul's passages about marriage are not. Paul confesses he is not
married and wishes that everyone were as he is; but if that were true there would be no offsprings. Paul did
say: 'It is far better to marry than to bum." In other words, it is better to have union with what he calls the
marriage state, than to long for such satisfaction. This was his opinion, not his inspiration. In his letter to the
Romans, Paul states his opinion about the homosexual - only because he forgot that in the Old Testament

God made everything and pronounced it good and very good. If God made everything, then God made the
homosexual, did he not? So not every word of scripture is inspired; but you will know the passages that are,
for when you awake, scripture unfolds in you.

It is said that, beginning with Moses and all the prophets and the psalms. Paul interpreted to them in all the
scriptures the things that concerned him. Remember: in Paul's day there was no New Testament. It was
written to record the passages of the Old Testament which were fulfilled. So when you read the New
Testament, pay strict attention to any passage that is quoted by the Risen Lord and taken from the Old
Testament.

In the tenth chapter of John, the Risen Lord says: '1 and my Father are one. Why do you condemn me for
saying I am the Son of God? Is it not written in your law. . - (and he quotes the 82nd Psalm) saying: "'I say,
you are gods'? If it is written, 'Ye are gods and scripture cannot be broken, why do you condemn me, whom
God consecrated and sent into the world?' “Here is the Christ in you, quoting scripture after having risen from
the sleep of death. And the moment Christ awakens in you, you are the Risen Christ!

There is only one Risen Christ and everyone is being gathered together into that one being. Although we have
different talents, everyone will know God's embrace, qualifying him for apostleship.

If you are meant to experience scripture consciously, you will be sent, and tell your experiences to those who
will be drawn to you, to show them the parallel between what happened to you and what the word of God
said through His inspired prophets. When the prophets inquired, they were told that they were not serving
themselves, for their time had not come. But scripture has been fulfilled now, and the time is here for all to
awaken.

We are in the act of awakening as God, and when the visions come they cannot be stopped. Coming
suddenly and unexpectedly, their power possesses you as though something is wearing you. Then you begin
to see and hear that which kings and prophets long to see, and cannot because the time has not fully come for
them.

As passage after passage of scripture unfolds within you, you will recognize the inspired ones as they take
place; but not everything written in scripture was inspired. They wrote certain dietary laws based upon what
they called the need of the time, but these are not inspired. There are passages in both the Old and the New
Testament that were not inspired, but man-made traditions which have enslaved the minds of men. We are
asked: 'Why do you deny the word of God for the traditions of your fathers?" If you are going to accept the
man-made traditions, you will never know the inspired word of God.

The inspired word of God comes to certain individuals because God is rebuilding his shattered tenple with
living stones. This tenple is not made with human hands, but with the redeemed. When one awakens, he
becomes a living stone in that one divine body.

Now, 'If the Spirit of Christ is in you, although the body is dead, he who raised Christ from the dead will
raise you also through his spirit, which dwells in you." If His Spirit wasn't dwelling in you, He could not raise
you. I know that when I awoke, there was no one there to lift me up. The wind was there so the invisible
God was present, but I saw no other garment. I awoke within myself and when I came out, my body lying on

the bed appeared to be dead.

Have you ever been in a recovery room in a hospital? In 1952, 1 had my gall bladder removed and my body
was wheeled into a recovery room after the operation. When I came to, I looked at the four others who were
there, and thought they were dead and we were in a morgue. Well, these mortal bodies we wear are dead.
They are animated and seemingly alive because of the presence of God in them That God, you are! You
cannot go to eternal death in that which cannot die, for God is life. The body God wears returns to dust, out
of which it was made; but you cannot die, for you are God Himself!

Spirit entered your body of flesh as your breath of life. At that moment God became human, and humanity
became a living being. Inspired scripture happens each time the Risen Lord prepares to disappear from the
visible world. His breath is his baptism with the Holy Spirit, which quickens your dead body into a life-giving
spirit.

Having experienced scripture, when I disappear from this world I cannot go without, for - containing all
within myself - 1 must go within.

This is the mystery of inspiration. You will be possessed by a vision, to find yourself playing the central role in
a drama that is taking place within yourself. And when the vision fades you will search the scriptures to find
the inspired word of God you have just fulfilled.

When you tell your experiences to all who will listen, few will believe you, for they have been conditioned to
believe in some little external Jesus Christ and prefer to remain that way.

It is the Christ within man who is his hope of glory. That is the Christ who fulfills scripture. Having had
scripture fulfill itself in me, I have interpreted to you in all the scriptures the things concerning - not a man
called Neville, but God's power, in me, called Christ.

Do not be embarrassed when I tell you that you are God. Instead, walk believing you are that important. You
don't have to become arrogant, but you must assume you are God. Think about it! Stop believing in God and
start believing as God. Do this and the visions will come to confirm your assumption.

Scripture is all about Christ, the Jehovah you are. The spirit and the flesh are one; therefore, when David
appears, in vision, you are revealing your true identity to yourself. This I know, for I have found David. He
called me Lord. I know I am the Rock that begot him, for I have played all of the fragmented parts and put
them together to form David.

When David calls you father, the Rock of his salvation, you will remember you are the Lord. Then you will
tell salvation's story, and if God is still asleep in those who hear, they will think you are mad. That's all right,
as all inspired men - being judged by the garment they wear - will appear mad to those who hear them When
you claim you have a spirit, you will be called mad, just as it is said of the Risen Christ in the tenth chapter of
John.

Today, as in the past, people believe scripture will be fulfilled in a secular manner. But while occupying their
garment of death, everyone will individually fulfill God's word.

You are destined to know the power of stopping and starting time. Possessed by the Spirit, you will be taken
into a room. Knowing intuitively who you are and the power you are feeling, you will arrest that activity within
you and everything will stand still As you examine that which was so alive and seemingly independent of your
perception only a moment ago, you will discover it is all dead. Then, releasing their activity in your
imagination, everything will once more become animated and continue its purpose. If a bird was in flight when
you arrested it, it will continue to fly when released. If someone is carrying food to a table when arrested -
although you can keep them in that position for as long as you like - when you release the power you know
yourself to be, they will continue to serve the meal as if nothing had happened.

Can you imagine doing that? I tell you it is true, but as long as you identify yourself with a body of death and
believe it is you, you will not realize you are your own hope of glory.

The body you care for and keep well is dead, while I - the awareness who entered it - AM a living being,
who will experience scripture while in this dead body. I came into the world and took upon myself the body
of a slave when I was bom in the likeness of man. Now, wearing the human form, I AM obedient unto death,
even death upon the cross of man. While in this state, I will experience the word I inspired the prophets to
write, for I AM the God in you!

Having created an incredible adventure, I prophesied that I would die and overcome death. The prophecy
has been fulfilled and will continue to be fulfilled in all. for I am God, capable of overcoming my last enemy,
which is death. I will awaken in my grave and come out unassisted to find myself greater than I was before
the adventure.

Those who think of me in terms of the outer form I wear will see the things that were foretold; but not me, for
I AM spirit and cannot be seen with the mortal eye. Having eyes that see not and ears that hear not, I will
give them eyes that they may see and bore ears that they may hear what kings and prophets long to see and
hear, but cannot. A retreat will not cultivate inspiration. It doesn't come that way. The lire that rises within you
is the same fire that descends like a bolt of lightening and splits you in two. You cannot consciously lift this
power through contemplation. Only He who first descended can ascend into the kingdom of heaven.
Descending like a bolt of lightening, the curtain of the temple is split, releasing His spirit that was trapped
inside. Then your power is raised back into the heavenly state from which you came, for you are the God of
scripture who said: T say, 'You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you. Nevertheless you will die like
men and fall as one man, O princes.' "

From now on, think of yourself as spirit, not flesh and blood. People are so proud of their physical line, yet if
they knew its background they night be ashamed of it. Many a person has paid a fortune to trace his lineage
and then spent another fortune to forget it.

Recently I read of a questionnaire which was sent out to various church officials in England, asking what they
thought was going to happen to them when they died. One minister replied: 'I assume I will enter into the joy
of the Lord, but why bring up such an unpleasant subject?" This is true the world over, because man does not
know he is immortal and cannot die.

You came into a world of death. The body you now wear will return to dust from whence it came; but you,
its occupant, cannot die. Rather, you will simply dream yourself into another body of death, animate it in a
terrestrial world like this, and continue to do the same things you are doing here. You will be in an
environment which the depths of your being finds best suited for what He still wants to do, and you will
continue doing it until you awaken in that garment and fulfill scripture.

Then you will take off your garment of death and return to the glory that was yours before that the world was.
We knew each other intimately before we descended, and we will know each other just as intimately when
we take off all of these masks and ascend.

In this world, we wear separate, individual bodies; but in eternity we form the one body. We are many, yet
one. 'Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one." In that state there will be only one Lord, one God
and Father of all, and all form that one. No matter what type of dreams an individual has, in the end they will
be but dreams; for when he awakes and returns, we will love him as dearly as we did before the descent.

Inspiration is a gift of God, which cannot be acquired. Because God is in you, scripture is inspired from
within. At the present time, Christ - God's power and wisdom - is personified as you. Although the body you
wear is dead, He who raised Christ from the dead will raise you also. Christ in you is the one who rises. His
spirit is your breath. Breathing his inspiration, you hear and feel the wind. Then you who radiate the glory of
that God breath will awaken as God Himself.

Now let us go into the silence.